Hello! I'm a long-time user of UBCD (I've remixed version 2.4 before). Now I got the 4.1.1 version and I wanted to use the UBCD menu system for my own boot disk. This disk won't be based on UBCD, it will be just to boot an internal Linux version with different kernel parameters.

Well, looking at isolinux/ and syslinux/ directories, I got confused about their contents. And I think UBCD misses the documentation about this.

So, what I'm asking is:

What does each directory mean?

What does each file in isolinux/ and syslinux/ directories mean?

If on mkisofs command you put only isolinux as boot sector, why do you have syslinux too?

If you've written some of the tools there, it would be very nice to provide a documentation form them, and also source code.

You can get documentation on syslinux/isolinux/memdisk here. These are open-source tools developed by H. Peter Anvin, with a huge following.

syslinux and isolinux are the same boot loaders for different media. syslinux is for floppies/USB memory sticks etc., while isolinux is for CD/DVD, but they understand the same .cfg files.

memdisk is a RAM-based floppy disk emulator.

The syslinux directory is required for booting UBCD from USB memory sticks (see tools\ubcd2usbubcd2usb.bat), while isolinux directory is required for booting UBCD from CD/DVD (see tools\ubcd2usbubcd2iso.bat), but they use the same set of .cfg files under "menus".

chain.c32 and menu.c32 are comboot modules. They are written in a particular way so that they can be called by syslinux/isolinux in the cfg files.

Same with sbm.cbt. I had some problems booting the Smart Boot Manager floppy image, which was why I used the comboot module instead. You can find more info here. I will try the floppy image again in the next release.

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